Heaviside cover-up method

Portrait of Oliver Heaviside

The Heaviside cover-up method, named after Oliver Heaviside, is a technique for quickly determining the coefficients when performing the partial-fraction expansion of a rational function in the case of linear factors.[1][2][3][4]

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